DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z June 27, 2022
SMOKE: Central and Eastern United States, and Southeastern Canada… A large plume consisting of light density smoke originating primarily from agricultural fires across the south central U.S., including southern Great Plains and Mississippi Valley, could be seen stretching from Texas to New England and Nova Scotia, passing through the southern and eastern states and extending over the Atlantic ocean off Florida’s coastline and over most of the Gulf of Mexico. Alaska, Northwestern and central Canada and the North Central United States…. A large area of light to moderate density smoke, attributed mainly to wildfires burning in portions of western and central Alaska and northwestern Canada, was visible stretching from western Alaska to the northeast over central and eastern Alaska through northwestern and north central Canada, including Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and into the north central United States. Pockets of heavier density smoke were seen near some of the larger wildfires in western Alaska, while an area of moderate density smoke stretched across central-eastern Alaska and western Yukon, in addition to parts of eastern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba. DUST: Eastern Caribbean Islands…. An area of moderate density Saharan Dust was seen approaching the eastern Caribbean Islands from the tropical Atlantic. WS THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG map: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov